The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-08
Local and State Notes.

Benson Bennett, of the oldest engineers on
the j.. NJ & l., has retired from railroading to
60 into business at Wichita. Kansas.
VIM. Mansfield who. for twenty years. was
road. master the Louisville, New Albany s.
Chicago road. died on Wednesday might at New
Albany
The Chesapeake & Ohio company has appoint
ed W. H. Greegor formerly with the L., n. A.
d c. road, district passenger agent, and his field
will cover Indianapolis and the State of Indiana.
F. Fl. Harvey. formerly telegraph operator
on the Vandalia, has been appointed manager Of
the Baltimore & Ohio telegraph lines III the
northern part of the State, with headquarters at
Logansport.
The McKeen syndicate has again under con-
sheraton the extending OF the T. h. q l.. dlvi-
Lumber regions. Such an extension will also
open good market for the coal on the lines
owned by the McKeen syndicate
O. W. Putnam. who has been trainmaster on
the Louisville Evansville & ST. Louis road
since it was opened for business on the 18th of
this month, retires with Superintendent Miner,
and with him goes on to the Alabama division
Of the Louisville G. Nashville road.
The Orleans. West Baden e. French Lick
Springs railroad was yesterday opened for bust
ness between Orleans and Paol. This eighteen
miles Of road was built by the L.. N. A. Sc G.
company which operates it, Paoli is one of the
oldest towns in the State and yesterday, for the
first time. passenger train ran into it.
The interests of the Baltimore 6 Ohio Rail-
road Company at Indianapolis are highly pros
porous. The receipts of the telegraph office in
March were over $500 in excess of March last
year, and the largest of any month since the
office at Indianapolis has been opened. The B.
& O. express business is also daily improving
General Manager McCrea Of the Pennsylvania
lines. has given instructions that the extension
of some of the branches on the Indianapolis 81
Vincennes road to other coal mines on the line
be laid by for few week. until it is known
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dianapolis. Should gas be found here the de-
maId for coal will be greatly lessened.
Ticket agents who are cut out OF their COM
missions by the new deal censure the general
passenger agent of the Pennsylvania lines Sc
verely. 1t is questionable if the eensure is de-
served, as the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has been pushed to the front in inaugurating the
fight and is backed by the leading roads of the
country, more especially the trunk lines.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company contem-
plate making considerable additions to their
shops at this point this season. The contract to
erect boiler-house was Yesterday awarded to
Peter Reuter-. The building will cost some
$4,000; will rest a stone foundation, the walls
are to be of pressed brick and covered with a
slate roof. its dimensions to be 60xl25 feet
Several changes in agencies take effect to-day
on the Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan road.
j E. Quier. agent at Marion. is transferred to
Wabash. and is succeeded at Marion by c. A.
Parkhurst, who has been chief clerk in the
u. a..
who has for some years been agent of the com
pany at Wabash, takes the agency ar Niles,
Mich.
Indications that the l. 00-mile ticket is to
continue on sale at two and one-haif cents per
mile, several of the roads are disposed to
issue tickets at that rate good for the year.
Merchants however, do not take kindly to the
change, feeling that two cents per mile for their
travelling statesmen ample compensation to
the roads, considering the freight business
which follows the drummer"
| At the request of John Lazarus traffic man.
ager of the Indianapolis. Decatur g. Springfield
| road, b. +. Peiree. attorney for the COMPANY,
| yesterday forwarded papers to the national rail-
way commissioners, asking that the fourth Sec
ton of the Interstate railway law, so far as this
road is concerned, be temporarily suspended. AT
| present the circumstances are such that If en-
| forced the road might well suspend business.
| as 1t could not earn operating expenses.
1t is stated that passenger and freight con-
ductors, engineers. fremen and men employ ed in
other departments. who were under George Brad
bury when he was general manager of the Peoria
| Decatur q Evansville road, are anxious to Sc
cure positions the Lake Erie g. Western I'M
| der him. and this fact creates some anxiety
among the employees on the l., P. 81 c., low the
indianapolis and Michigan City division of the
| l.. T. % w. Some of the conductors on this di
vision have been running since the road frs,
| came under the management of David Macy
General and Miscellaneous